Friends Who Are Going

Friends Attending

Friends Attending

Friends Attending

Description

In a post-nuclear future, where to be different is to be an outcast, four young adults discover they share the gift of telepathy. But what will happen when a closed-minded community discovers their secret...

ROAR policy: Latecomers will be admitted at the discretion of the Theatre Manager.

DIRECTOR'S NOTE:

The Chyrsalids is set in a post-nuclear future in a technology-free, primitive and strongly religious farming community called Waknuk. The people of Waknuk are terrified of the mutations that have arisen from their mysterious past – what they call 'the Tribulations' – and strive to keep their society 'pure'. People born with physical defects or differences are banished to the Fringes, a feared group of outcasts who live in the forests and occasionally attack and raid local farms.

The story revolves around a young man called David. He and four of his peers have a mutation that enables them to communicate by thought. They keep this dangerous fact secret, but eventually the truth is revealed and they are forced to flee into the forest. . .

Novelist John Wyndham is famous for his science fiction novels, including The Day of the Triffids (1951) and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), and the latter was filmed twice as Village of the Damned. He wrote The Chyrsalids in 1955 and it was adapted by David Harrower in 1997 for the Royal National Theatre Connections scheme. David Harrower is perhaps best known for his play, Blackbird, written in 2005, which won a Critics' Award for Theatre in Scotland, a Laurence Olivier Award and received three Tony nominations.